From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from post2.inre.asu.edu ([129.219.110.73]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 173Cwr-0003Ks-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 10:32:25 +0100 Received: from conversion.post2.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40111) id <0GVH00B0195W0U@asu.edu> for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 02 May 2002 02:32:20 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 02:32:26 -0700 From: Russ Dill Subject: Re: Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader In-reply-to: <02050209075601.08259@diva.localdomain> To: John Sutton Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Message-id: <1020331947.19824.3160.camel@russ> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <02050120383503.07252@diva.localdomain> <02050209075601.08259@diva.localdomain> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 00:47, John Sutton wrote: > Hi again > > Many thanks for all that feedback! Definitely a positive consensus > about the units for start_offset ;-) > > Jasmine suggests that I should leave some extra after the end of grub for > future expansion, which seems a good idea, but raises in my mind the > question as to how grub (or anything else) knows where the nftl partition > starts? Does nftl_format also write a pointer to the start block > somewhere else? Or does the format contain some kind of signature? just sure to erase any unused sectors. nftl looks for a media header signiture > Re the suggestions as to how to recover from an unbootable system! To > an old fool like me, the idea of pushing a chip into a live board makes my > hair curl! Anyways, I hope it doesn't come to that as it would in my case > be extremely difficult, if not impossible - I'm using an SBC plugged into > a passive backplane and the DoC socket is right at the bottom next to the > edge connector ;-( maybe something in bios could help (shadow regions, etc)